Barto v. . Himrod’s Empirical Analysis
1853
Citation profile
61 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 65 later decisions — most recently October 2000 · most notably Buttfield v. Stranahan (1904), St Louis Iron Mountain Southern Railway Company v. May Taylor W (1908)
61 state decisions — followed in 25 states
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 65 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ The electors shall determine by ballot at the annual election to be held in November next whether this act shall or shall not become a law. ””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage““It is not denied that a valid statute may be passed to take effect upon the happening of some future event, certain or uncertain. But such a statute, when it comes from the hands of the”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“the Legislature must exercise its own judgment definitively and finally .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.